Timers
Chained countdown sequences for cooking, workouts or focus blocks. One step rolls straight into the next.
Android · Free on Google Play
Orbit Alarm
Prove you’re awake.
Most alarms and reminders can be swiped away without moving. Orbit Alarm’s can’t. Stick a code where the task happens (the bathroom, the kettle, your desk), and the way to switch the alarm or task off is to get up, go there and scan it.
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- Free
- No account needed
- Works offline
- Android 7.0+
If starting things is the hard part
A physical first step, before your brain can argue.
Task paralysis, executive dysfunction, time blindness: if any of those are familiar, you already know that knowing what to do isn’t the problem.
So Orbit Alarm makes the first step a physical one. Put a code on the kettle, the washing machine or your desk, link it to an alarm or a task, and it keeps going until you get up, walk to it and scan it. By the time you’re standing there, you’ve already started.
No barcodes to hand?
Print a free sheet of QR labels, one for each spot in your home.
The wake-up mission
Four ways to prove it, one per alarm.
Switch on Oversleeping Countermeasures and pick a challenge for each alarm: meeting-day one brutal, the lazy-Sunday one gentle. Which one suits you?
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Barcode scan
Get out of bed and scan a code you registered earlier: the toothpaste, the kettle, or one of our free printed labels.
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Maths
Solve a real equation, not tap a button that says “yes, I’m awake.”
- 03
Shake
Physically move the phone until the counter is satisfied.
- 04
Tap
Tap the screen a set number of times, from 10 to 100. The lightest of the four.
Barcode tasks
Tasks you have to get up for.
Most reminder apps let you tick a task off from the sofa. In Orbit Alarm, a task can need a scan instead. Put a barcode on the thing itself, and the reminder only clears when you’re standing next to it.
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Vitamins
Scan the jar, and you’re already holding it.
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Brushing your teeth
Scan the toothpaste on your way past the sink.
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Bin night
A label on the bin, and it actually goes out.
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Heading out
A label by the front door for keys, bag and lunch.
A barcode task fills the screen and keeps chiming at full volume until you scan it. If you genuinely can’t do it, there’s always a way to dismiss it without completing. Everyday tasks can be a simple Mark Done.
Built to resist you
The 6am version of you will try everything.
Orbit Alarm is built to stop that version of you specifically.
Full volume, enforced
Locks to maximum the instant it rings and keeps re-applying it, so turning the phone down mid-ring does nothing. On by default.
Snoozing is capped
A snooze limit you set per alarm, shown on screen as you use it, with an optional penalty that shortens each one.
Emergency Dismiss, barely
A real escape hatch for emergencies, but a skill-based challenge rather than a free pass. Can be switched off per alarm.
Survives the usual tricks
Swiping the app away from Recents doesn’t stop it. Give it Do Not Disturb access and a battery-saving exclusion, and it rings through those too.
Beyond the morning
The rest of the day, and the night before it.
The same discipline applied to everything else you’d rather put off.
Stasis Pod
A full-screen ambient visual and soundscape to drift off in, with a bedtime signal and its own optional barcode lock.
Morning report
Dismiss your alarm and get the local forecast and a short daily insight, a reason to check your phone that isn’t doom-scrolling.
Fourteen original tones
From gentle synth chimes to full red-alert klaxons.
Every tone is an original sci-fi composition, including a gradual wake-up ramp that builds in volume, and a randomiser that keeps every morning a little different.
Your data stays yours
No account. No cloud sync.
Your alarms, saved barcodes and preferences live on your device, not our servers. Read the full Privacy Policy for details.
Ready to actually wake up?
Free to download, no account required. Questions first? The guides and support page answer the common ones, and there’s an honest comparison with Alarmy, AMdroid and BarcodeWake.